LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Book Reviews
"English Coastal Evolution." By E M.
Ward (Methuen, 6s. 8d net).
Reviewed by A. W. Lewis, the Consulting Engineer of the Institution.
COASTAL changes concern the Institution...
Category: Articles
Lady Jane and Fury
Ramsgate, Kent. At 1.4 p.m. on 25th September, 1965, the east pier watchman reported that the motor yacht Lady Jane had broken down one mile east of the pier and was signalling for help. The lifeboat Michael and Lily Davis proceeded at 1.14...
A Remarkable Life-Boat Launch
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 56 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1933 .... 63,450 A Remarkable Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
SELSEY, SUSSEX.—On the 5th September the brig Governor Maclean, of London, was totally wrecked, during a gale of wind, on the Shold Point of the Ower's Sandbank, off Selsey. The life-boat on that station was immediately manned and...
Category: Services
Move to Salisbury
WILL all members please note that the Y.L.A.
has moved office to 29A Castle Street. Salisbury, Wiltshire (Tel.: Salisbury 6966 (STD 0722).
The new office has its links with the marine world as the building...
Category: Articles
When In February a Coach Bringing a Visiting Football Team and Supporters to Buckingham Was Swept Downstream from a Ford Across the River Swollen By Heavy Rain
When, in February, a coach bringing a visiting football team and supporters to Buckingham was swept downstream from a ford across the river, swollen by heavy rain, Peter Steers, landlord of the Woolpack, did some quick thinking. While... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
patron—ibis Most ©racious fl&ajestg tbe Chairman— COLONEL SIR FITZROY CLAYTON, K.C.V.O., V.P.
Deputy Chairman— SIR JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., C.H.G...
Category: Advertisement
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....
Category: Articles
September (1)
SEPTEMBER MEETING RATHCOURSEY, CO. CORK. While sailing a racing dinghy on the morning of the 23rd July, 1940, a boy and girl were capsized in East Ferry Inlet, Queenstown Harbour. A squally S.W. wind was blowing against the strongly ebbing...
Category: Services
The Boy
JUNE 21ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 4.45 P.M. a message was received that a Peterhead motor boat, the Boy, with two on board, had not returned, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 5...